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    The year the world laughed at U.S.

    The world laughed at Trump in 2017, but it often turned its derision to the country that elected him, as well.

    Jason Markusoff
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    “The world is laughing at us.”
    —Donald Trump, a million or so times before he became president (and a few since he started the job)

    Actually, the Washington Post stopped counting the times Trump said this at 103, and that was a year before his inauguration. In 2017, he often added a back-end to that remark: “They aren’t laughing anymore.”

    The fact-checkers never had to dig deep to disprove that Trumpian assertion. The first year of Trump’s presidency seems to have brought more international guffaws, snickers and contemptuous mocking than even the goofiest of Barack Obama mom-jeans moments, George W. Bush malapropisms, Bill Clinton charming sleaziness and Gerald Ford’s trouble with stairs.

    The world laughed at Trump in 2017, but it often turned its derision to the country that elected him, as well.

    January

    Netherlands:

    Italy:

    Scotland:

    February

    Sweden:

    Canada:

    Sweden: (again, former PM)

    March

    Belgium: (Trump’s baseless claim Obama wiretapped Trump Tower)

    April

    Germany:

    Kenya:

    May

    Norway: (the Prime Minister)

    Spain:

    June

    France: “Make our planet great again”

    Mexico: “Mexico will not pay for that f–ken wall”

    Russia: Putin offers asylum to former FBI director James Comey

    Australia:

    July

    France: (A pariah in Paris)

    August

    Britain:

    Germany:

    Colombia: (“Climate change is a Chinese hoax”)

    September

    Cuba:

    United Nations:

    October

    Venezeula:

    November

    New Zealand:

    Britain: (Conservative communications director)

    December

    Costa Rica:

    Jordan:

     

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